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Fm: Jerry Drain [Microsoft] 72350,2056To: Timothy H. White 75300,1772

Timothy,

<< As it turns out, NT will *not* recognize more than 16MB of RAM on an ISA bus
machine if the int 15h ah=88 bios function is "standard."  This is precisely
why Dell won't touch the issue.  And BTW: I've been working extensively with
Dell.  The two replies are:  "NT is an unrelease product, therefore we do not
support it" *and* "Our BIOS is an AT standard BIOS, and as such is limited to
returning available memory <16MB."  What is the solution?  Go figure... >>

Dell has accepted this as a known problem, and they are producing an upgrade to
the bios.  These machines will have to be upgraded with the A08 bios, which
Dell plans to have available in August, if they want the machine to report
greater than 16 Mb under Windows NT.  If anyone is interested in this upgrade,
please contact Dell sometime in August, 92.

Thanks, -- Jerry.





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